Vardy Signs A New Deal With Leicester City
Leicester stunned Manchester City 3-1 on Saturday to bolster its bid to become the unlikeliest champion in English football history.
“Leicester City trusted me since I got here there are three and a half years and it is impossible to measure how this confidence helped me progress”, assured Vardy from Fleetwood Town landed for 1 3 million euros in 2012.
We had a chance to recover points at home, now we’re six points behind Leicester. Now we have 39 points more to play for.
“I don’t believe the bookmakers”, said the Italian, whose side visit Arsenal next weekend.
The German also revealed that distractions like the FA Cup and Europe for other clubs in the title race could lend Leicester an advantage.
City’s recovery was short-lived, however, and Huth punished them for yet more slack defending from Leicester’s next attack, a 60th-minute corner won after good work and dogged persistence by Vardy.
City conceded after only three minutes to Leicester, with Huth pouncing on the ball after Riyad Mahrez’s free kick bounced through the penalty area.
The warning signs were evident from early on and Leicester never allowed City’s vulnerable central defensive duo of Martin Demichelis and Nicolas Otamendi to settle.
That is not the only big hit Sky Bet could take on Leicester this season as 20 punters with the firm could win a combined £5million if Leicester hold on to top spot.
Claudio Raineri’s unfancied team have not only defied the odds, but made all of us believe that dreams can come real. I don’t think about if we win the league, I don’t want to think about it. How we play, how we fight. For us it’s important to play and continue in this way because it’s a odd league.
Odd sums the season perfectly.
Shearer’s fellow presenter Ian Wright disagreed after claiming the Foxes had put a Manchester City side assembled for £223million to “shame” with a team that cost only £22m.
Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp missed the game with appendicitis.
Newcastle United clawed their way out of the relegation zone with Aleksandar Mitrovic scoring in a 1-0 home victory over West Bromwich Albion.
The win moved Everton up to seventh, two points ahead of Stoke in 11th.
Crystal Palace ended a run of five straight defeats with a 1-1 draw at Swansea City, where Gylfi Sigurdsson’s 13th-minute free-kick for the hosts was cancelled out by a close-range Scott Dann effort.